NOT SHOVING THE OFFICIAL WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE

Quote: Keith Swiftcorn "Interesting summary. Why was Bailey charged with a Grade C offence? Have the sentencing guidelines changed rlSINCE 2010?rl On Field Compliance Sentencing Guidelines from 2010 15.1(i) Behaves in any way contrary to the true spirit of the game - Grade D-E ... Deliberate physical contact with a match official. Grade D offences carry 3 to 5 match bans. Grade E offences carry 4 to 8 match bans.'" Try looking at the 2012 criteria... www.therfl.co.uk/~rflmedia/docs/ ... 0Final.pdf Deliberate contact with a match official is now Grade B-E, so a ban of 1-2 games would have been the recommendation had he been charged with a Grade B. It would appear the RFL have treated Webb's contact with the official and Bailey's as being entirely different in nature, hence Webb has been found guilty but not banned due to "entirely exceptional circumstances".

Quote: Keith Swiftcorn "Interesting summary. Why was Bailey charged with a Grade C offence? Have the sentencing guidelines changed rlSINCE 2010?rl On Field Compliance Sentencing Guidelines from 2010 15.1(i) Behaves in any way contrary to the true spirit of the game - Grade D-E ... Deliberate physical contact with a match official. Grade D offences carry 3 to 5 match bans. Grade E offences carry 4 to 8 match bans.'" Try looking at the 2012 criteria... www.therfl.co.uk/~rflmedia/docs/ ... 0Final.pdf Deliberate contact with a match official is now Grade B-E, so a ban of 1-2 games would have been the recommendation had he been charged with a Grade B. It would appear the RFL have treated Webb's contact with the official and Bailey's as being entirely different in nature, hence Webb has been found guilty but not banned due to "entirely exceptional circumstances".

AND I AM BOTH

Be carefull I kopped a week's ban because of this low life.

You do tend to get a headache when people shout all the time

If the Rhinos and McDermott had slammed the RFL disciplinary panel, you would have been slagging them off for not excepting the panels decision. They just can't win where your concerned.

On brighter note I suppose all the £300 fines that the RFL are collecting from all these disciplinary hearings will go along way to paying off their purchase of the wasteland that is Odsal.

Think you missed his point.

Having finally seen the incident this morning, if Bailey had left Silverwood alone then the case for serious case of obstruction resides there

Silverwood deffo obstructed there the Useless Cleckhuddersfax Personage

Yes I think he certainly did. Keith has a way with words even when, as in this case, most were harvested from this thread full of mostly irrational one-eyed comments.

Had this thread appeared on the Wigan board the same people would have been ripping the pea out of their fans.

There can be no excuse for a player making deliberate physical contact with a match official so I'm not sure why some posters are trying to find one and/or making comparisons to other incidents involving player on player indescretions or the punishments that followed them.

In general terms I hope players reign themselves in a little after this wake up message as their attitude towards officials has markedly declined over recent seasons, IMO.

I still think the Bailey incident was more of a one off involving one of those one off characters in the game but hopefully it will reinforce a respect for the officials and the job they do, I think, to the best of their unbiased abilities.

I think it's the length of ban which for me seems disproportionate. I can see the reasoning. Not really to protect silverwood from a gentle shove but to send a message out to the lower leagues and ametur game where refs ( in football anyway from experience) are subject to a heck of a lot worse.

Yep.